Thursday, March 24, 2016

If we had an actually functioning government then Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and most of the political establishment would have been put to death for treason. And the abomination known as the Kaaba would have been erased from the face of the Earth. And the doctrine known as Islam would have joined Soviet Communism and National Socialism in the dustbin of history.

This
book asks: "What caused Nazi Germany?" Unlike lesser attempts to
explain that blood bath, The Ominous Parallels answers: "The same
philosophies that are prevalent in the United States of America." Dr.
Peikoff argues convincingly that in both countries the intellectual,
educational and political leadership share, explicitly or implicitly,
the same core ideologies. These ideologies submit that reality is
subjective--a malleable illusion; emotions are the proper guide to human
action--especially the emotions of race and the tribe, which cannot be
understood by outsiders; self-sacrifice for the sake of others should
usurp a man's own desires--and the state must take any necessary action
to ensure that sacrifice. These ideologies demand that "individual
selfishness" does not obstruct the path of "the public interest."From
Part One, Chapter One: " 'To be a socialist,' says Goebbels, 'is to
submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the
whole.' By this definition, the Nazis practiced what they preached.
They practiced it at home and then abroad. No one can claim that they
did not sacrifice enough individuals."The underlying theme in
The Ominous Parallels is how philosophy shapes cultures, and reading
this book, it is difficult to escape a feeling of hopeless dread; of
being caught in racing floodwaters and swept madly toward a destruction
you are helpless to prevent. Given the theme of this nation's descent
into fascism, and Dr. Peikoff's uncompromising method of proving it,
that is the proper effect.The conclusion of The Ominous
Parallels is not that we are helplessly destined to go to the same
lengths down the same road as Germany. The conclusion is that it is time
for us to choose whether or not we will; that if we fail to consciously
decide, the decision will be made for us. Contrary to the bleating of
irrationalists then or now, it is only a coherent philosophy of reason
and individual rights which will give us the means to choose not to
become our own slaughterhouse.Dr. Peikoff shows that such a
philosophy is not prevalent in the United States because, although this
nation was unique in being founded on philosophic ideals (rather than
arbitrary land-grabs and tribal warfare), it was ultimately lacking a
coherent detailed formulation of those ideals, as well as the
Aristotelian philosophers to create one. Independence from Europe was
only won physically--not ideologically. "The land of poets and
philosophers was brought down by its poets and philosophers," says
Peikoff. The resulting bowel movement of docile Nazi sheep who obeyed
their Fuhrer because they obeyed their philosophers could indeed be us,
for their philosophers--their pragmatists and Kants, their Hegels and
Marxes--are oursby adoption.We do have one trump card,
"...the philosophical breach between the American people and the
intellectuals." In Germany, the intellectuals and the people were united
in ideology, feeling at home in their country and with each other.
This, says Peikoff, is not yet the case in America. Peikoff's book will
help to keep it that way.

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Hitler and Mussolini used to disrupt their political’ opponents’
meetings and speeches, Hitler’s gangs with truncheons, Mussolini’s with
castor oil which they forcibly fed to opposition leaders. These tactics
had been honed by the Reds before the Revolution, and were exported for
use by the Communists in various parts of Europe. To the best of my
knowledge there have been no such operations by Trump’s followers, but
apparently there are increasing numbers of protests at his meetings.
While there have always been some roughhousing and scuffles in American
politics, raiding each other’s gatherings has not been traditional, with
some exceptions. More usual is getting yourself thrown out of someone
else’s meetings, thus getting the publicity rather than the speaker. I
expect to see a lot of that in the next few weeks, and a great deal more
after the conventions.

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So far no Castor Oil, and I expect Trump and his followers are too smart
to retaliate in kind; but we’ll see. Interesting times indeed. And as
you say, they are protesting what he is fighting. I saw a number of
“Veterans for Trump” looking rather disgruntled but doing nothing. The
US Army, led by West Pointers, is not the Wehrmacht of the Thirties, nor
is the American Legion anything like the Stahlhut. But there are
veterans of the Iraqi wars not all that much older than the protesters,
and it is rather unwise to taunt them beyond the limits of patience.
Eventually that is going to happen and the result will not be pretty.
Today’s veterans are all veterans of a volunteer army; very few squishes
among them.

Friday, March 11, 2016

“Put up about fifty combat-cars. Drawn a deadline, and opened fire as soon as the mob crossed it, and kept firing till the survivors turned tail and ran. Then send out more cars, and shot everybody wearing a People’s Watchman uniform, all over town. Inside forty-eight hours, there’d be no People’s Welfare party and no Zaspar Makann either.”

To those who value power over all else, no act is too depraved and no bodycount is too high.

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

A small town was once attacked by a pack of wolves. Some of the
inhabitants - - men, women, and children - - were maimed and killed by
the wolves.

The men of the town armed themselves and tracked the wolf pack back
to its lair and proceeded to kill every member of the pack. And when the
guns fell silent the only sound was a whimper emanating from a hollow
beneath a tree stump.

In the hollow was a newborn wolf cub. One of the men, a bald fellow
who wore glasses and a old black field jacket, shot the wolf cub with
his rifle.

How can there be peace with those whose dearest wish is to murder you and your children?

It is simply impossible.

Human actions are subject to choice, but to live a Human life one must be aware how to be Human. A child must know that there is an alternative to being a murderer. But those children raised under the guidance of Hamas know only murder as their goal in life. Although they are human in physical form in mind they were made to be monsters programmed to destroy. And in order to live a proper human life we must destroy them.

Palestinian Supporters: “Israeli forces shot this poor Martyr and killed
him. He wasn’t doing anything wrong, he was just killing Jews, those
damn occupiers, ISRAHELL IS A TERRORIST STATE!”

Given that it appears that such persons cannot get out of bed at whatever time of day without divine or diabolical intervention I will have to seriously reconsider my current standing position on the existence of God.